Wherio · October 4th, 2026
Five real historical events. Guess where each one happened, then compare your score with the answers and locations below.
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1. Monks print a Buddhist anthology with movable metal type at Heungdeok Temple, 78 years before Gutenberg's Bible.
Answer: 🇰🇷 South Korea · 1377
Only the Jikji's second volume survives, held by the National Library of France.
2. An architecture professor invents a twisting cube while solving a structural problem, then spends about a month solving it.
Answer: 🇭🇺 Hungary · 1974
The Rubik's Cube became the best selling puzzle toy in history, with hundreds of millions sold.
3. Commandos fly 4,000 km to storm Entebbe airport terminal at night and free hijacked airline hostages held with a dictator's blessing.
Answer: 🇺🇬 Uganda · Jul 3rd, 1976
The Entebbe raid freed 102 hostages and cost commander Yonatan Netanyahu his life.
4. Twin volcanic spires rising straight from the Caribbean, an island's emblem, join the World Heritage list.
Answer: 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia · 2004
Gros Piton and Petit Piton are Saint Lucia's twin volcanic spires and a World Heritage Site.
5. A shallow lunchtime earthquake topples a cathedral spire and much of a garden city's center, killing 185 people.
Answer: 🇳🇿 New Zealand · Feb 22nd, 2011
The magnitude 6.3 quake killed 185 people in Christchurch, most in the collapsed CTV building.
More historical events
- Soviet tanks enter the capital before dawn to crush a nationwide uprising in central Europe.
- Parliament abolishes a monarchy that had existed without a king for decades.
- The communal kimchi-making tradition joins UNESCO's list.
- The world's first commercial public bungy site opens from the Kawarau Gorge Suspension Bridge in this country.
- Eastern Polynesians settled a southwestern Pacific archipelago.
- A gunman attacked two mosques in a city on the South Island, killing 51 people.